Art Journal play

 This is a small 2" x 3" (5.3cm x 7.8cm approx.) journal I have made this past week:

Inside and back pages, using stamps, doodling, acrylic paint pens, punched circles, fussy cut images. They are a work in progress that I can come back to at any time and play more.
Why so tiny? Sometimes when creating opportunities arise and you change course. I started with a 12" (30cm) of 350gsm white cardstock (CS) and an A4 sheet of white CS - that I sprayed with 4 spray inks in my stash. Allow to dry completely - I left overnight to dry.  Then in the morning I cut, the larger sheet into 6" x 4" pieces. These were than to be folded in half.  All good so far, for the first 6 pages and then for some reason I cut the remaining 6 pieces in half ending up with 12 pages that are sized 2" x 3" - no worries I love mini journals. A couple of photos
Spray inks on the A4 sheet - of course, by this time the green spray decided to run out! 
The other 2 journals I created - now just waiting for their finishing touches. Yes, I separated the 12 small pages into 2 mini journals. 
This is one of the pages in the larger journal.  Love it!
Thank you for staying with me for this rather long posting, happy creating, Margaret

 

 


































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